Tribal Justice
Overview
The Center’s Tribal Justice Exchange provides technical assistance to tribal communities seeking to develop or enhance their tribal justice systems. Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Tribal Justice Exchange has three major goals:
- ensuring that tribal communities have access to training and ongoing technical assistance about problem-solving community-based practices;
- encouraging formal collaborations between traditional tribal justice systems and state and local court systems;
- identifying and disseminating best practices developed in Indian country that could help strengthen public safety initiatives elsewhere in the United States.
The Tribal Justice Exchange offers a range of services designed to meet these goals. To get help planning, implementing, or evaluating your program, click here. Click here to see upcoming grant opportunities and here to see upcoming conferences.
Recent Developments
Can Peacemaking Work Outside of Tribal Communities?
A group of practitioners and policymakers from both tribal and state courts participated in a daylong discussion in December 2011 about Indian peacemaking with an eye toward documenting introducing peacemaking in non-Indian settings. The roundtable was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, in collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation.
Click here to read more about the discussion.
Participants included, Judge Michael D. Petoskey of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Judge David D. Raasch of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Court, and Judge Alex Calabrese of the Red Hook Community Justice Center.
Tribal Justice Exchange Staff
Aaron Arnold, Director
(315) 266-4331
Brett Taylor, Deputy Director
(646) 386-4463
Kathryn Ford, Senior Associate
(646) 386-4181
Erika Sasson, Senior Associate
(646) 386-5922
Sarah Reckess, Senior Associate
(315) 266-4332
Norma S. Feldman, Program Administrator
(315) 266-3440
